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Quote of the week
ReiserFS V3 is the stablest Linux filesystem, and V4 is the fastest.
In regards to claims by ext2 that they are the de facto standard Linux filesystem, the most polite thing to say is that many persons disagree, and it is interesting that those persons seem to include the distros that are growing in market share. See http://www.namesys.com/benchmarks.html for why many disagree. -- From the reiser4 configuration help text (Log in to post comments)
Fightin' Words Posted Aug 27, 2004 5:28 UTC (Fri) by AnswerGuy (guest, #1256) [Link] ... and silly ones at that.
Reiser4 may have advantages. I might even be better than ext2/3 in every way. XFS and JFS seem to be pretty solid contenders, too. However ext2/3 *is* the default for the mainstream distributions.
It doesn't have to stay that way. But, as an LPI instructor and courseware developer who's been using Linux as my primary home OS for 12 years, and based the last decade of my career on it, I can say with confidence that ext2/3 *is* the most commonly used filesystem on Linux systems.
Hans likes to stir it up; and it's a little unseemly since his work is innovative. I would like to see applications (databases) that implement his real vision (implementing things as close to the filesystme as possible without implementing what amounts to a file management subsystem which then serializes it's artifacts into composite format files as we're accustomed to them.
I don't know if it will ever happen; but I find it more intriguing and interesting than a bit of "trash talk" about who is the "de facto" standard!
JimD
Re: Fightin' Words Posted Aug 27, 2004 14:49 UTC (Fri) by Luyseyal (guest, #15693) [Link] I would like to see applications (databases) that implement his real vision (implementing things as close to the filesystme as possible without implementing what amounts to a file management subsystem which then serializes it's artifacts into composite format files as we're accustomed to them. Ditto. I'd love to see a Postgres hack that allocated files on disk intelligently using the features that Future Reiser will supposedly offer. It's possible this will end up being a Bad Thing[tm] as you're tieing into the filesystem too closely, but only a time and a hack will tell... Cheers,
de facto standard Posted Aug 28, 2004 0:53 UTC (Sat) by giraffedata (subscriber, #1954) [Link] I think Hans just needs to look up de facto and standard in the dictionary. The link he gives in support doesn't even address whether reiserX is more standard than ext2. It just argues that it's better.
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